Board of Trustees

President and Executive Director Sr. Theresa Rickard, OP, D. Min.

President and Executive Director of RENEW International; Dominican Sister of Blauvelt, NY

Chair

Eric Dill Senior Vice President, American Arbitration Association/ International Centre for Dispute Resolution; previously Director of the Office of Human Resources, Diocese of Metuchen, NJ

Secretary

Patricia A. Murphy Partner in the law firm of Murphy & James, LLC

Treasurer

Vincent Sweeney Owner, Sweeney Consulting Group, an HR consulting firm; part-time professor at the Rutgers School of Human Resources Management

Victoria Carey Vice President, US Marketing, Intercept Pharmaceuticals; lay minister of the Word, St. Martin of Tours Parish, New Hope, PA

Livvy Dinneen Director of Counseling and faculty member, Immaculate Conception Seminary, Seton Hall University; private practitioner in psychotherapy

Raymond J. Donovan Retired President, Schiavone Construction Company; former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Alejandro Fernández-Colmenárez Vice President, Corporate Development & Communications for Brenntag Latin America; Former President of the MIT Club of South Texas Martin Garofalo Chief Executive Officer, News America Marketing

Jennifer Jehn Executive Director, Miami Dolphins Foundation; hospice care grief counselor

Robert P. “Pat” Kane Managing Partner, Star Strategies Group, LLC, Alexandria, VA

Rev. Thomas P. Looney, CSC, PhD

Director of Campus Ministry, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Robert P. McGovern Retired executive in mortgage-backed securities industry; Chair of Finance Committee at St. Elizabeth Church, Avon by the Sea, NJ

Lisa Meehan Executive Director, Travel Services Benchmarking Network; former Director NA Travel, Card and Meetings at Merck & Co. Inc.

John Mulderig Media reviewer, Office for Film and Broadcasting, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Rev. Abraham Orapankal A native of the Indian State of Kerala; currently pastor of St. Matthias Catholic Church, Somerset, NJ; former member of RENEW International’s Pastoral Services Team

Mario Paredes Chief Executive Officer of SOMOS Community Care; founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (CALL); former Consultant to the Latin American Commission to the Vatican and the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops

Dominick Preziosi, Jr. Retired attorney in the public sector and private practice; served on the board of Bergen Catholic High School; involved in various youth activities and ministries

Walter I. Rickard Former Chairman of the Board and CEO, LSSi Corp; former NYNEX executive

Michael Singer AVP Chief Security Organization, AT&T

Dennis Stripe Executive in the medical device industry and board member of Steps2Walk, a non-profit organization focused on orthopedic deformities in children in underserved areas

Donald Whittam Executive Vice President, Sales & Merchandising, Divatex Home Fashions, New York, NY; Ministry Leader, Church of the Presentation, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Bob Eid, RENEW supporter, poses with Sister Honora Nolty, OP, RENEW’s associate for special projects, at the board’s annual Communion Breakfast in November 2019.

Sister Terry Rickard listens as Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, archbishop of Newark, speaks in the RENEW hospitality room at the Fall Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore in November 2019. Cardinal Tobin is chairman of the RENEW corporate board and is a strong supporter of RENEW ministries.